BOOKPHACE

  There is something wonderfully uplifting about a novel that has a protagonist of mature years kicking butt. The title doesn't suggest ...

  I think the most forcible thing that struck me upon completion of this short story collection was how open ended the stories are, inconclu...

 This book is Beautiful. Yes, I know that's the title of the book but it really is - beautiful. It's a book of beauty on so many lev...

I’ve had a bit of a Fiona Cummins fest this month! Or perhaps I should say another Fiona Cummins fest for I read three of her books last mon...

  WINNER OF THE 2023 ARYAMATI POETRY PRIZE When a collection of poems are ordered into a prelude, five movements, a coda and an interlude I ...

I was lucky enough to snaffle a proof of Trevor Wood's first book, The Man on the Street, which I reviewed in 2020 just before lockdown ...

  First up this month was Liv Constantine's The Next Mrs. Parrish. Astute readers of this blog ( and I'm chuckling here because I do...